Horizon 2020 Basics

"Horizon2020" is the name the European Commission (EC)
has given the €77 billion it will provide for
support excellent science, industrial leadership,
and societal challenges between 2014 and 2020. The ultimate aim
of these funds is political: to support research and
close to market and market activities to enhance the
competitiveness of the EU, create jobs and solve other
pressing issues. These funds are disbursed in two main ways: top
down and bottom up.

Bottom Up Approach: European Research Council
(ERC) and Marie Curie Individual Fellowships

The EC uses a "bottom up" funding
approach to support "excellent science." Individual researchers
(and their teams) can choose topics they want to obtain funding
for. ERC and Marie Curie are best known "bottom
up" funded EU Programmes, and those most relevant to
Philipps-Universitaet Marburg researchers.

For information on how these work
(amounts, eligibility and evaluation criteria, restrictions, deadlines)
see the Bottom Up Funding pages.

Top Down Approach: "Collaborative Research"

The EC uses a "top down" funding approach to support collaborative
Research to address societal challenges. As such, top
down funding is more "political" than bottom up, as it ultimately also
has to address current EC policy issues.
International consortia respond to funding calls -
contained in Work Packages - on a specific aspect of one of
societal challenges the EC has identified as being of special
importance.

For Information on how these work (amounts, eligibility and
Evaluation criteria, restrictions, Deadlines) see the Top Down
Funding page.

"Top down" call topics for 2014
and 2015
are:

"Top down" calls for 2016 and
2017 are:

digital security

digital security

smart cities

smart cities

energy efficiency

energy efficiency

low carbon energy

low carbon energy

blue growth

blue growth

food security

food security

personalised healthcare

"internet of things"

waste

automated road transport

water

sustainable industrial production ("the circular economy")

mobility

disaster protection

tackling the financial crisis

For information on how these work (topics, amounts, eligibility
and evaluation criteria, restrictions, deadlines) see the Top Down
Funding page.